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UNC SOM Rising Star Seminar Presents Dr. Alvaro Curiel Garcia
May 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alvaro Curiel Garcia, PhD
Revson Foundation Senior Fellow
Columbia University Medical Center
Chair of Career Development and Advisory Commission – ECUSA
Seminar title: “Decoding pancreatic cancer through regulatory network analysis: from bench to beside”
Dr. Curiel is originally from Spain where he received his double degree in biological and biochemistry sciences from the University of Navarra. Dr. Curiel got his PhD with honors in 2019 working in the generation of mouse models using genome editing tools for brain tumors at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. He joined Columbia University also in 2019 under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Olive, in co-mentorship with Dr. Andrea Califano. His work is focused on pancreatic cancer research and systems biology tools for which Dr. Curiel has received several awards including the Revson Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Columbia Postdoctoral Pilot Award and the Columbia career development award.
The Rising Star Program is a professional development training program to help postdocs prepare and become more competitive for faculty job interviews at institutions like UNC.
Please join us and show support for our seminar speakers!
(For those unable to attend, a zoom link is available upon request to Mimi Baltz.)